Andrey Ignatyevich Aldan-Semyonov (russian: Андре́й Игна́тьевич Алда́н-Семёнов; 27 October 1908 – 8 December 1985) was a

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

writer, who was imprisoned in the Far Eastern Soviet

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camps from 1938 to 1953. Along with Boris Dyakov and Yury Pilyar, he published his memoirs of Gulag life as part of the second wave of Russian literature on the Soviet camp experience, after Georgy Shelest published his ''Kolyma Notes'' and Alexander Solzhenitsyn his ''

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ''One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'' (russian: links=no, italics=yes, Один день Ивана Денисовича, Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha, ) is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first p ...

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* Казак В. ''Лексикон русской литературы XX века'' = ''Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917''. — Москва: РИК Культура, 1996. 1908 births 1985 deaths People from Urzhumsky District People from Urzhumsky Uyezd Russian memoirists Russian prisoners and detainees Prisoners and detainees of the Soviet Union 20th-century memoirists Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery {{Russia-writer-stub